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She is not on an antibiotic and they told me to keep her cone on I’m worried she will chew the incision. So she hasn’t been able to clean the area, should I let her?

The photos don’t look overly concerning to me, but it is hard to tell with the black fur growing in around the area. Hopefully she can clean the poop off herself. Is she on an antibiotic? I would think so since her uterus was infected. If she is, then I wouldn’t worry too much about the incision becoming infected.

Sending pics to the vet is definitely the best call. As long as there wasn’t an enormous amount of mushy poo, she can likely clean herself and you won’t need to worry about it. Since her functioning seems fine, that’s a very positive sign, but getting the green check mark from the vet after showing pics would be best!

I’m sorry noone has answered!

It does look like its mushy poop, but I too would be reluctant to clean it since its so close to the spay incision, without consluting with my vet first.

Hopefully you can contact your vet first thing Monday morning and maybe email them the pix?

It’s great that she’s eating and doesnt appear to be in any pain!

Thanks for the replies, I really appreciate it.  I will be calling my vet tomorrow, they’re closed on weekends.  I had him there at the end of December at the start of all this, and I asked if it could be EC and he didn’t think so at all.  Now maybe it happened secondary from fighting the ear infection/respiratory infection that he started wi…[Read more]

I agree this looks like a bit more than “just” the typical cataracts you see in (virtually all) aging pets.

There would be little harm in treating for ec. A very rare side effect is bone marrow suppression. I recently chatted with one of our old forum members who’s bun got bone marrow suppression during treatment with a bendazole. For this bun it…[Read more]

Hmm… just looking at the photo, I’d say that is more than just old age. Cataracts caused by age tend to be the posterior kind. Have you had his eye pressure checked? Cataracts like that can lead to glaucoma.

Thank you so much DanaNM and LBJ10 for both of your replies.  I am aware of EC related ones but I am certain he was like this way before symptoms started, perhaps years?  They didn’t change quickly, I totally missed it because I didn’t know that’s what would make his eyes look that way until I started doing some research.  I usually feel like I’…[Read more]

Probably what is sometimes referred to as a “head binky”.

I think they are fine to give. However, like the others have said, I don’t really see the need. His regular pellets can be “treats” if you split up his daily ration and feed some of it to him by hand.